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Best of 2013

Hey there dear listener! I know 2014 is already two weeks old, but I think we should take a look back at 2013 for a moment and celebrate CJSR 100 most played releases of the year, don’t you?

All releases are placed according to the number of spins they received in 2013*.

Anything you see in bold is local. We are proud to say 7 of our top 10 albums of the year were from right here in #yeg, including our #1: The Lad Mags‘ debut 7″ Lover/You Don’t Love Me. A spooky slice of garage rock from the underworld that didn’t leave our charts as long as it was Gnu Wax. Right behind them were art-punks Energetic Action, whose 2nd album Becoming tore up our charts even more than their surprise first hit, Walls. Doug Hoyer released his masterpiece To Be a River in the summer as well, a delightful blending of Doug’s influences, referencing the Talking Heads, Afrobeat, and Jens Lekman-like pop. All must-have records, I assure you.

Check out all of our favourites below. Don’t forget to scroll down to our genre charts to see which albums made the cut for our Loud, RPM, Jazz, World, Hip-Hop, Folk/Roots/Blues, and Experimental programs.

Thanks for listening!

Chad Brunet CJSR Music Director

*you might see a couple releases from 2012 on the list. That means they were added to CJSR’s library late enough that year to earn spins in early 2013, hence their inclusion here.

TOP 100 of 2013

Artist

Album

Label

1

The Lad Mags

Lover b/w You Don’t Love Me

Self-Released

2

Energetic Action

Becoming

Energetic Action Recordings

3

Doug Hoyer

To Be A River

Old Ugly

4

Mikey Maybe

Honey + Bread

Old Ugly

5

Shotgun Jimmie

Everything, Everything

You’ve Changed

6

Various Artists

Radio Adventures In the Wild

CJSR

7

Ghost Cousin

Scotland

Old Ugly

8

Amy van Keeken

So Long

Self-Released

9

The Courtneys

The Courtneys

Hockey Dad

10

B.A. Johnston

Mission Accomplished

Mammoth Cave

11

The Homeshake

The Homeshake Tape

Fixture

12

Various Artists

Beating Strong

Heart of the City

13

A Tribe Called Red

Nation II Nation

Tribal Spirit

14

My Bloody Valentine

m b v

Self-Released

15

Zebra Pulse

Heh, Vay Bae-Bays

Ramshackle Day Parade

16

Yo La Tengo

Fade

Matador

17

Charles Bradley

Victim of Love

Dunham

18

Hooded Fang

Gravez

Self-Released

19

Alex Calder

Time

Captured Tracks

20

The Burning Hell

People

Headless Owl / Weewerk

21

Jr. Gone Wild

Less Art More Pop – Reissue

Self-Released

22

The Bicycles

Stop Thinking So Much

Aporia

23

Himiko

DethNoizzz

D-Trash

24

Hayden

Us Alone

Arts & Crafts

25

Ghibli

Clubs

Old Ugly

26

Daniel Romano

Come Cry With Me

Normaltown

27

Bloodshot Bill

So Blue

Transistor 66

28

The Ketamines

You Can’t Serve Two Masters

Mammoth Cave

29

Unknown Mortal Orchestra

II

Jagjaguwar

30

BRAIDS

Flourish // Perish

Arbutus

31

Various Artists

Arts & Crafts: 2003-13

Arts & Crafts

32

Krang / Shooting Guns

Split EP

Psychic Handshake

33

Ghostkeeper

Horse Chief! War Thief!

Saved By Vinyl

34

Kurt Vile

Wakin On a Pretty Daze

Matador

35

White Fence

Cyclops Reap

Castle Face

36

Nick Everett & Everybody

Elsethings

Self-Released

37

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

Push the Sky Away

Bad Seed Ltd.

38

Cousins / Construction & Destruction

Split EP

Noyes

39

Dirty Beaches

Drifters/Love Is the Devil

Zoo

40

Thee Ahs

Future Without Her

Self-Released

41

Pissed Jeans

Honeys

Sub Pop

42

Daft Punk

Random Access Memories

Columbia

43

Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet

Savvy Show Stoppers

Mammoth Cave

44

Brazilian Money

Old Bones: Rarities, Misfits, and Loose Teeth

Self-Released

45

Petra Haden

Petra Goes to the Movies

Anti-

46

Various Artists

Arts & Crafts: X

Arts & Crafts

47

Gold & Youth

Beyond Wilderness

Arts & Crafts

48

George Ireland & the Willy Nillies

Waning & Waxing

Self-Released

49

Neko Case

The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You

Anti-

50

Rae Spoon

My Prairie Home

Self-Released

51

Deerhunter

Monomania

4AD

52

Shannon & the Clams

Dreams In the Rat House

Hardly Art

53

100 Mile House

Wait With Me

Self-Released

54

Ben Sures

Son Of Trouble

Self-Released

55

Cobra & Vulture

Grasslands

Self-Released

56

Royal Canoe

Today We’re Believers

Nevado

57

Little Miss Higgins & the Winnipeg Five

Bison Ranch Recording Sessions

Self-Released

58

Wilfred N and the Grown Men

I’m In Love With the City

Zonik

59

Zebra Pulse

Endings

Ramshackle Day Parade

60

Scott Cook

One More Time Around

Groove Revival

61

Field Assembly

Narco

Self-Released

62

Lab Coast

Walking On Ayr

Mammoth Cave

63

War Baby

Jesus Horse

Bummer

64

CROSSS

Obsidian Spectre

Telephone Explosion

65

By Divine Right

Organized Accidents

Hand Drawn Dracula

66

Bloodshot Bill

The Lonesome Road

Norton

67

Dead Ghosts

Can’t Get No

Burger

68

Kitten Forever

Pressure

Guilt Ridden Pop

69

Suuns

Images du Futur

Secretly Canadian

70

Various Artists

CITR Pop Alliance, Vol. 3

CITR / Mint

71

UBT

Ego Orientation

Psychic Handshake

72

The Seahags

Good ‘n’ Greasy

Self-Released

73

Lindi Ortega

Tin Star

Last Gang

74

Chelsea Light Moving

Chelsea Light Moving

Matador

75

The Sadies

Internal Sounds

Outside

76

Babysitter

Eye

Psychic Handshake

77

Julie Doiron

So Many Days

Aporia

78

The Men

New Moon

Sacred Bones

79

Colin Stetson

New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light

Constellation

80

Jom Comyn

Live at the Elevation Room

Self-Released

81

Rhythm of Cruelty

Still Life EP

Self-Released

82

Love Electric

Love Electric

Energetic Action Recordings

83

Three Sun Sea

This Is Not A Question

Self-Released

84

Shooting Guns

Brotherhood of the Ram

Teargas Recording Tree

85

Iceage

You’re Nothing

Matador

86

King Khan & the Shrines

Idle No More

Merge

87

Various Artists

RAT KING II

Killer Haze

88

Sean Nicholas Savage

Other Life

Arbutus

89

Mavis Staples

One True Vine

Anti-

90

Guided By Voices

The Bears For Lunch

GBV, Inc.

91

Alex Vissia

Young Love

Root Cellar

92

The Highest Order

If It’s Real

Idee Fixe

93

Low

The Invisible Way

Sub Pop

94

David Bowie

The Next Day

EMI

95

The Coathangers / Nu Sensae

Split EP

Suicide Squeeze

96

Boats

A Fairway Full of Miners

Kill Rock Stars

97

The Deep Dark Woods

Jubilee

Sugar Hill

98

Zachary Lucky

The Ballad of Losing You

Missed Connection

99

Tunji Oyelana

A Nigerian Retrospective 1966-79

Soundway

100

Mac DeMarco

2

Captured Tracks

Electronic / RPM

1

A Tribe Called Red

Nation II Nation

Tribal Spirits / Pirate’s Blend

2

Zebra Pulse

Heh, Vay Bae-Bays

Ramshackle Day Parade

3

Ghibli

Clubs

Old Ugly

4

Daft Punk

Random Access Memories

Columbia

5

Boards of Canada

Tomorrow’s Harvest

Warp

6

A Tribe Called Red

Trapline EP

Self-Released

7

Moderat

II

Mute

8

Born Gold

I Am An Exit

Crash Symbols

9

Various Artists

Verve Remixed: The First Ladies

Verve

10

Tim Hecker

Virgins

Paper Bag

11

Comaduster

Hollow Worlds

Tympanik Audio

12

Pick a Piper

Pick a Piper

Mint

13

Gold Panda

Half of Where You Live

Ghostly Int’l / NOTOWN

14

CFCF

Music For Objects

Paper Bag

15

Toro Y Moi

Anything In Return

Carpark

16

Spoke and Mirror

The Music Is the Message

Self-Released

17

Borys & Jeremy Greenspan

God Told Me To

Jiaolong

18

Mogwai RMX

A Wrenched Virile Lore

Sub Pop

19

The Knife

Shaking The Habitual

Rabid / Mute

20

Jessy Lanza

Pull My Hair Back

Hyperdub

Loud

1

Himiko

DethNoizzz

D-Trash

2

Pissed Jeans

Honeys

Sub Pop

3

Shooting Guns

Brotherhood of the Ram

Teargas Recording Tree

4

Iceage

You’re Nothing

Matador

5

Mortillery

Origin of Extincion

Napalm

6

Edge of Attack

Edge of Attack

Spread the Metal

7

Display of Decay

Display of Decay

Self-Released

8

Ghost B.C.

Infestessumum

Sonet

9

Death Toll Rising

Infection Legacy

Self-Released

10

Anciients

Heart of Oak

Self-Released

11

Fatality

Psychonaut

Self-Released

12

Ides of Winter

Minus 10°

Self-Released

13

Mongol

The Altan Urug

Self-Released

14

Chron Goblin

Life for the Living

Self-Released

15

Eye of Horus

Suffer Eternity

Self-Released

16

All Else Fails

Fucktropolis

Suicidal Bridge

17

Black Sabbath

13

Vertigo / Republic

18

Reanimator

Great Balls

Self-Released

19

Weapon

Embers & Revelations

Relapse

20

Death Valley Driver

Graveyard Dead

Diminished Fifth

Hip-Hop / Rap

1

Mikey Maybe

Honey + Bread

Old Ugly

2

DL Incognito

Someday Is Less Than A Second Away

Urbnet

3

Shad

Flying Colours

Black Box

4

Grand Analog

Modern Thunder

Shadow Cabinet

5

Derek Christoff x The Arkeologists

The D.Ark Tape

Urbnet

6

Classified

Classified

Halflife / Universal

7

Moka Only

Doctor Do Much

Urbnet

8

Janelle Monae

The Electric Lady

Bad Boy

9

Test Their Logik

Be

Self-Released

10

Maestro Fresh Wes

Orchestrated Noise

Fontana North

11

Sweatshop Union

Infinite

Urbnet

12

Joey Stylez

Feather + Rosary

Stressed Street

13

Ghettosocks

We’re Gonna Drink A Lot of Wine This Year, Boys

Droppin’ Science

14

Soso

Not For Nothing

Endemik

15

Theo3

Airplane Over One Way Streets

Self-Released

16

The Caravan

The Caravan

Self-Released

17

inc.

No World

4AD

18

J. Cole

Born Sinner

Roc Nation / Columbia

19

Sabo Forte

Prime Watson

Self-Released

20

The Lore

Emergence

4 A.M.

Jazz

1

Colin Stetson

New History Warfare, Vol. 3: To See More Light

Constellation

2

Three Sun Sea

This Is Not A Question

Self-Released

3

Jim Brenan Quartet

January

Death Defying

4

Land of Kush

The Big Mango

Constellation

5

Cory Weeds / Bill Coon Quartet

With Benefits

Cellar Live

6

Cameron Wallis

Calling Dexter

MupohMusic

7

Oliver Jones

Just For My Lady

Justin Time

8

d’Cana

Earthtone

Self-Released

9

Tyler Hornby B3 Trio

Locus

Chronograph

10

Chet Doxas

Dive

Addo

11

Hutchinson-Andrew Trio

Prairie Modern

Chronograph

12

Trifolia

La Refuge

Self-Released

13

Filipino Doctor

House Calls

Energetic Action Recording

14

James Danderfer

The Hummingbird Brigade

Reigning Parade

15

Curtis Nowosad

The Skeptic & the Cynic

Know-A-Sad Music

16

Kye Marshall Jazz Quartet

Pencil Blues

Self-Released

17

Organissimo

Dedicated

Big O

18

Amanda Tosoff

Live at the Cellar

Ocean’s Beyond

19

Barry Romberg’s Random Access

Part 12 – Crab People

Romhog

20

The Nightcrawlers

Volume 3

Cellar Live

World

1

Tunji Oyelana

A Nigerian Retrospective 1966-79

Soundway

2

Bombino

Nomad

Nonesuch

3

Dubmatix

Rebel Massive

Self-Released

4

Femi Kuti

No Place For My Dream

Knitting Factory

5

Lijadu Sisters

Horizon Unlimited

Knitting Factory

6

Rokia Traore

Beautiful Africa

Nonesuch

7

Eric Bibb & Habib Koite

Brothers In Bamako

Stony Plain

8

Hailu Mergia & His Classical Instrument

Shemonmuanay

Awesome Tapes From Africa

9

Garifuna Collective

Ayo

Stonetree / Cumbancha

10

Jerusalem In My Heart

Mo7it Al-Mo7it

Constellation

11

Esmerine

Dalmak

Constellation

12

Boogat

El Dorado Sunset

Maisonette

13

d’Cana

Earthtone

Self-Released

14

Adje Performers

Alale – Creator of Dawn

Self-Released

15

Drumhand

Cheer On the Sun

Wax-A-Hot-One

16

Iwango Jahfire & Strugglah

What Is Wrong With the World

Self-Released

17

Vieux Farka Toure

Mon Pays

Six Degrees

18

Chet Singh

Occupation Nation

Self-Released

19

Eccodek

Living For Live

Big Mind

20

Bassekou Kouyate & Ba Ngoni

Jama Ko

Out Here

Folk / Roots / Blues

1

Amy van Keeken

So Long

Self-Released

2

Hayden

Us Alone

Arts & Crafts

3

Daniel Romano

Come Cry With Me

Normaltown

4

Nick Everett & Everybody

Elsethings

Self-Released

5

George Ireland & the Willy Nillies

Waning & Waxing

Self-Released

6

Neko Case

The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You